In a fashion landscape increasingly defined by polish, completion, and algorithmic refinement, Toronto-based ISECAI’s latest presentation proposes something far less resolved.
FASHION & BEAUTY
Zara Taps John Galliano for Archive-Based Collaboration
After two years away from the fashion system following his departure from Maison Margiela, John Galliano is returning through an unexpected partnership with Zara.
Inside Toronto’s Own Fashion Week SS26: Building the Infrastructure of a Fashion City
For decades, Toronto’s fashion scene has occupied an uneasy position within the global industry. The city produces a steady stream of designers, stylists, and photographers, yet its infrastructure has historically lagged behind the scale of its creative talent.
Matières Fécales FW26 — The One Percent
Paris Fashion Week is no stranger to spectacle, but few shows this season felt as ideologically pointed as Matières Fécales’ Fall/Winter 2026 presentation, The One Percent.
Precious Cargo: Nemiroff and Ksenia Schnaider Take London Fashion Week
Fashion moves in cycles of revelation. Each season, certain objects break through the surface tension of the runway and announce a shift that is already in motion.
The Best Alexander McQueen Looks of Lady Gaga’s Career
Lady Gaga’s relationship with Alexander McQueen has always been more than celebrity styling, it’s a creative symbiosis between a pop auteur and a fashion house built on performance, futurity, and the spectacle of becoming.
The Spectacle of Resistance: Can Fashion Actually Stand Up to Fascism?
Firefly-shaped jewels flickered on the Valentino’s SS26 runaway last season, against royal blues and dense floral prints in Alessandro Michele’s collection, aptly named Fireflies, an attempt in Michele’s own words in the show notes, to “reawaken the gaze” and “nourish imagination with political force”.
Fine Chaos AW26: “ARA SOLIS” at Copenhagen Fashion Week
Fine Chaos opened CIFF66 with ARA SOLIS, a sharply staged AW26 collection set inside The Dome, the fictional corporate city that anchors the brand’s growing narrative universe.
AUTOMARA’s Husk: A Study in Form and Material
Since the rise of 3D design, artists and designers have been drawn to the strange, uncanny potential of digital materiality. Toronto-based designer Kerry Xu of Automara takes that impulse further with the Husk Collection, a sculptural line shaped by contamination, adaptation, and the tension between the human body and the digital processes that reimagine it.
VALMORA: Craft, Fluidity, and the Quiet Renaissance of Canadian Fashion
Inside a former garment factory in Montreal’s Chabanel district, Rebecca-Jo Dunham-Baruchel sits across from Matteo Valmora, creative director of Montreal-based label Valmora, and names something that feels immediately true.